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Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Romance and Power in the Hollywood Eastern (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book develops the idea of the "Eastern" as an analytically
significant genre of film. Positioned in counterpoint to the
Western, the famed cowboy genre of the American frontier, the
"Eastern" encompasses films that depict the eastern and southern
frontiers of Euro-American expansion. Examining six films in
particular-Gunga Din (1939), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Heat and
Dust (1983), A Passage to India (1984), Indochine (1992), and The
English Patient (1996)-the author explores the duality of the
"Eastern" as both aggressive and seductive, depicting conquest and
romance at the same time. In juxtaposing these two elements, the
book seeks to reveal the double process by which the "Eastern" both
diminishes the "East" and Global South and reinforces ignorance
about these regions' histories and complexity, thereby setting the
stage for ever-escalating political aggression.
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